Deep dive #1
🧵 Justice Alito's invocation of Sir Matthew Hale in his leaked majority opinion is so, so much more fucked up than people realize. I'm a professor with a PhD, and my area of expertise happens to be women and gender in the early modern era (1500-1700). Here is what you need to know. https://t.co/MfMSi1g4D2
At the time the constitution was written the word "abortion" referred to miscarriages and sunsets. (Google it)
And the bible from way before that insisted that fetuses should be terminated in cases of adultery.
We need to codify "rights" for the age we live in now.
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